Shower of Flowers Dive into a good book QUITMAN. Miss. (AP) - Chuck McClure is all wet. and proud of it. McClure. principal of Quit- man Junior High. challenged his students to achieve a certain reading level within a month. They were doing so well, he didn't wait out the month to keep his pledge to dive into the chilly Chickasawhay River. ''1'11 do whatever it takes to motivate the students." McClure said Tuesday. "If 1 have to jump into thc river to encourage thcm to read. then I'll jump into the river. I would do it again." Under McCI ure ' s system, each book is worth points. For I example .. 'Gone With the Wind" is rated 69 points, and that'S just one of the books Staff photo by Brett Larson sixth-grader Emma Johnson Local florists got flooded with a variety of flowers earlier this week in anticipation of Valentine's D-ay. has read since October. "I think the whole thing is ,'real." she said. "I lik; to ~ad anyway. but when I heard Mr. McClure was going to jump into the river, it made me want to read even more." A condom and a rose, sweetie? Mc Cl u re told his 700 students he would jump into Valentine's Day also happens to fall on the hole. She said almost anything that can be the river if they got 2.000 By Winda Benedetti last day of National Condom Week. SIRC squeezed to fit through th.at hole can be put points in a month. !hey Staff Writer has been selling the condoms without the car- into the balloons. with stuffed animals being achieved 1.700 points In 20 Move over roses - latex condoms and nations since Monday. one of the most popular items. - days. so he waded into the balloons are trespassing Oil your Valentine's Bill Reitz. treasurer of SIRe. said they Snyder said men have put diamond river Monday and plunged Day territory. have been fairly popular. engagement rings on teddy bears or brought backward. He doesn't even While most of the flower shop employees in -li~gerie and ~put them "in the balloons-to swim. around Pullman agreed that roses and other II give to their girlfriends. flowers are still the favorite gift on the 10\'- Snyder said the more exotic flowers are ers holiday. a few new items nave become It shows people are also popular this year. Dendrobium orchids the gift of choice. open to new ideas. _ are a good example. There are ten white ISU may hire The Sexual Information and Referral Cen- flowers on a single stem. which Snyder has ter is selling condoms with carnations. an - Florence Snyder flown in from Hawaii. idea that ha; become more popular with the "It shows people are open to new ideas." vice provos~ increasing concern about sexually transmitted He said it is an even split between men and she said. diseases. women buying the items and said some of According to historical records. the valen- "I think. because it's a sexual holiday. them have been embarrassed and acted "all tine originally started out as hand painted that giving out the condoms is a way to be giggly" when purchasing the rubber protec- copperplates and then developed into wood- from WSU responsible." said SIRe Secretary Stephanie tion. cuts and lithographs. Kellis. "I think it is a way to be responsible Clear latex balloons filled with everything The valentine also became the first greet- By Racheal Hanowell in a light-hearted way." from stuffed animals to lingerie are also a ing card. Kellis said she believes the AIDS epidemic popular item this Valentine's Day. said Flor- Staff Writer Valentine's Day most likely began during has made people think about the dangers of ence Snyder. owner of the Laurel Tree. medieval times in England and France. There WSU Vice Provost Jo Ann sex and has made the idea of giving condoms Snyder said a machine using a vacuum Asher Thompson is one of seven as presents more appealing. sucks the balloon in and opens a four inch See GIFTS on page 20 finalists for the position of pro- vost at Iowa State University. Asher Thompson said the administrative experience she has Tribe vies for control of lake oained at WSU opened opportu- ~ities for her and said she will In a 1991 study, conducted by Ridolfi Engineers seriously consider accepting the By Barbara Laboe and Associates of Seattle. areas in and around the ISU position if it is offered. Staff Writer lake were found to contain dangerously high levels While the hordes of WSU students who travel to of lead. zinc and cadmium. The study stated that "I grew up in the Midwest so Lake Coeur d'Alene for cruises and camping trips "the analysis indicate that heavy metal contamina- there's a lot that's attractive may not stop to think about who owns and controls tion may pose a threat to human health and the about it." she said ... It would be the lake, the Coeur d'Alene tribe has taken legal environment in and surrounding the Coeur d'Alene like going home." action to regain control of the lake and its contami- reservation and Lake Coeur d' Alene. " Asher Thompson accepted a nation clean up. Contaminated water, containing several heavy temporary appointment as WSU The state of Idaho is also concerned because if metals like lead. zinc and cadmium, is washed the tribe wins the case. the state could lose control v ice provost in 1991. The term down into the lake via rivers anytime there is a expires this year. She has been at of the land and all of the docks around the lake. substantial river flow. said Joel Hamilton. a moder- WSU for seven years. first as the "The issue is an environmental one." said Bob ator at a Jan. 23 University of Idaho presentation department .chair for apparel. Bostwick. the tribe's media consultant, "the owner- on the topic. merchandising and mter ior ship issue would just strengthen the focus on the . design. In 1990 she became act- environmental threat to the lake." In the lake sediments at the north end of the ing vice provost when Ron Hop- "The tribe is the only sovereign government that lake. deposits containing 160 parts per million of is showing real concern about the lake, its people -See PROVOSTon page 20 and its future." he said. See LAKE on page 2 2 The Evergreen Friday, February 14,1992 WSU, Pullman, Wash. LAKE: from the cover cadmium, 8,000 parts per million of the land around the lake, and between the tribe and the U. S. in Another problem with treaty stitution. of lead and 9,000 parts per mil- they want to exercise that control 1887, but not ratified by Con- disputes is that Article VI of the The state's view at the presen- lion of zinc were discovered by to halt the lake contamination gress until 1891. Idaho became a U.S. Constitution states that trea- tation is that everyone wants the Ridolfi. and to encourage the lake's clean state in 1890, and according to ties supersede many state laws, lake cleaned up so the ownership Contamination levels higher up, Bostwick said. the equal footing doctrine, then Andranovich said. Article VI issue isn't really the important than 1000 parts per million are gained control of all waterways, reads " ... all Treaties made. or issue, Hamilton said. Another recommended for clean up in res- II Strong said. which shall be made, under the problem Idaho has with the tribe idential areas. •'Congress can not allocate Authority of the U. S., shall be gaining control of the lake is that Clean up is also recommended It is the goal of lands that they do not own, and the supreme Law of Land; and the tribe could then regulate the in recreational areas, where small the Coeur d'Alene that is why the suit is invalid," the Judges in every State shall be docks and their placement around children are present, with 1,500 Strong said. bound thereby, any thing in the the lake, Strack said. to 3,500 parts per million con- Tribe to make In 1908 Congress passed the Constitution or Laws of any State .'The tribe is not really suing tamination, said Callie Ridolfi, Heyburn Park Act without the to the Contrary notwithstand- for ownership of the lake, president and principle engineer sure the lake is tribe's consent. The act gave the ing ... ,. because free navigability is guar- at Ridolfi Engineers and Associ- safe and healthy land to the state of Idaho, and Strong said the article does not anteed by the federal govern- ates. according to the tribe, violated apply because Idaho controlled ment, what they're really suing It is because of this contamina- for all future the 1887 treaty. the land before the treaty was for is ownership of the lake beds tion that the tribe wants to regain generations Steven Strack. an Idaho deputy approved and therefore Congress which would give them the control of the lake. attorney general. said that the did not have any jurisdiction over power to regulate and exclude "The tribe doesn't think the - Ernest Stensgar Idaho Land Board's position is the land. "If there had been a others," Strack said. state has been a good steward of "that they own the land around treaty before statehood, -then The tribe says the ownership the lake, therefore they think the The state of Idaho does not have the lake, and have since 1908." there wouldn't be an issue," suit is to help enforce another tribe ought to take control of the a problem with the lake clean up.